USPTO Patents Application 09911874

Patent

IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

Continuation

Application of: Stuart D. Edwards Examiner: M. Peffley

Serial No. 09/007,237 Group Art Unit: 3739

Filed January 14, 1998

For GERD Treatment Apparatus and Method

PRELIMINARY AMENDMENT

Commissioner of Patents

and Trademarks
Washington, D.C. 20231

Sir:

The Examiner's attention is directed to the Information Disclosure Statement
that accompanies this Amendment The Statement makes of record in this continuation
application the documents that are of record in the parent application.

Please amend the application prior to the first Office Action and calculation of filing
fee as follows:

IN THE SPECIFICATION:

Please amend the Cross-Related Application paragraph beginning on Page 1, Line 5
as follows in clean form (the amended paragraph is also presented attached in marked-up
form):

Continuation Application of .
Serial No. 09/007,237
Preliminary Amendment

Clean Version of Amended Paragraph

This application is a continuation of co-pending US. Patent Application Serial No.
09/007,237, filed January 14, 1998.

Continuation Application of ,
Serial No. 09/007,237
Preliminary Amendment

Marked-Up Version of Amended Paragraph

This application is a continuation of co-pending US. Patent Application Serial No.
09/007,237. filed January 14. 1998 [continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent Application Serial No.
08/731,372, filed October 11, 1996, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent Application
Serial No. 08/319,373, filed October 6, 1994, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Application
No. 08/286,862, filed August 4, 1994, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent Application
Serial No. 08/272,162, filed July 7, 1994, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent
Application Serial No. 08/265,459, filed June 24, 1994, and is related to concurrently filed
Application entitled "GERD Treatment Apparatus and Method" identified as Attorney Docket
14800-748, all with named inventor Stuart D. Edwards, and all of which are incorporated herein
by reference].